KRS 247.467: State Board of Agriculture on approval of application to certify association

to hold referendum.

Upon the filing with the State Board of Agriculture of such application on the part of any

commission, council, board, association, or other agency of pro ducers, the Commissioner

shall within thirty (30) days thereafter convene the State Board of Agriculture to consider

such application; and if upon such consideration the said board of agriculture shall find

that the commission, council, board or other agen cy making such application is fairly

representative of and has been duly chosen and delegated as representative of the

producers producing such commodity, and shall otherwise find and determine that such

application is in conformity with the provisions of KRS 247.450 to 247.505 and the

purposes therein stated, then and in such an event it shall be the duty of the

Commissioner of Agriculture to certify such commission, council, board, association or

other agency as the duly delegated and authorized group or agency representative of the

producers of such agricultural commodity, and shall likewise certify that such agency is

duly authorized to conduct among the producers of such commodity a referendum for the

purpose herein stated.